Gareth Lockrane – Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Exceptional British flautist Gareth Lockrane has been pushing his instruments to ever greater heights as a fi rst-call session player, star sideman to a who's who of UK and international artists, and as a bandleader with his Grooveyard and Big Band projects.
The latter unit's long-awaited power-packed debut, Fistfight at the Barndance, has just emerged on Whirlwind Recordings. Selwyn Harris found out from the Stafford-born, Royal Academy and NYJO alumnus about how his passion for cinema filtered into this tribute to Lockrane's jazz-loving father
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